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Is anyone else caught in a weird Venn diagram of Imposter Syndrome and furious indignation and disdain for actual imposters in your field? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context: I'm a second year medical student and currently residing in the deepest pit in the valley of the Dunning-Kruger graph, but am still constantly frustrated and infuriated with the push for introducing AI for quasi-self-diagnosis and loosening restrictions on inadequately educated providers like NP's from the for-profit "schools".

So, anyone else in a similar spot where you think you're kinda dumb, but you know you're still smarter than robots and people at the peak of the Dunning-Kruger graph in your field?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

OP I was recently in hospital (cancer ward) and heard the guy in the next bed argue with the doctors about his treatment by saying, "I disagree."

Not "I found some info on the web that said something slightly different," but "I disagree," as if his opinions had equal weight to the doctor's.

His source? A single online article about a hospital in a poor, developing country.

The arrogance was astounding.

At least once a day I heard him tell someone that "I'm an engineer" and that he has "a couple of hundred people" working under him. His wife seemed pretty invested in the idea of his brilliance, too.

I really don't know how actual doctors put up with Dr Google.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I worked professionally in medicine for a few years before starting medical school, and thus far my approach has been to entirely disregard anything they said on the subject and continue as normal unless the nonsense they're spouting has the potential to cause serious harm. Our patient care professor is training us to listen attentively, then dismantle the nonsense as politely as possible while guiding the patient's viewpoint back to something approaching reality.